I feel like... my problem with fatalities in MKX, and some of the ones in this game thus far... is they rely too much on "bits and pieces" ... and don't play to the actual character. To elaborate...
When the games were simpler, and they couldn't get down to little nitty gritty things like ripping off faces, or taking out brains... the fatalities (by necessity) were much more broad, and grandiose, and involved big showy moves, that removed big honkin' body parts. And often relied heavily on the characters' powers/gimmicks.
Now that they can get down to little things like ripping a face off, or pulling out an organ... I feel like many of them have lost some of their uniqueness of character and flare. I mean Baraka's... didn't FEEL like Baraka, until the end when he stabbed the brain (with his uniquely Baraka blade)... before that... the face-ripping part could literally have been anyone's fatality.
Geras' back of the head punch could be anyone's fatality.
Skarlet's heart exploder could be anyone's fatality, with some slight power modification.
I feel like a lot of the ones in MKX had that problem. I said, "This fatality is relying more on the gore tech than the character. Anyone could have done this fatality."
I DUNNO... there are always a few gems and a few duds in every fatality batch, so these opinions are just broad thoughts, not an end all be all commentary. But yeah. I do feel like they focus too much on the nuts and bolts of a fatality sometimes, and don't step back and look at the whole machine. And by and large, fatalities are often more enjoyable when you get a nice big showy death. Some of them focus too much on the details, without painting a nice picture.
